best for code, but still missing tools for CAD designers.
January 02, 2025

best for code, but still missing tools for CAD designers.

Ricardo Noronha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Azure DevOps Server

Azure DevOps Server makes integration between different areas with the agile process, in my case I use Kanban to guide a hardware design team and Azure lets me create several features for each part of our PCB design process, and I can manage how each person on the team is going on, review cases are much easier. I can link all tasks from the first requirement to the reports from the qualification tests. Each project has an epic structure that lets us navigate over all projects and create multiple teams in the same workspace. I can bring a lot of metrics showing who is delaying, effort by project, and much more info that helps my board to understand if the critical tasks are being managed as requested.

Pros

  • multiple team management
  • one server for all types of team connected
  • version control is easy
  • scripts to automate simple tasks

Cons

  • integration with CADs for hardware design
  • improve the link management for child/related/parent work items
  • template for several common work flow
  • fast feature creation and backlog management
  • little hard to organize the history of all work items
  • good for metrics of team and project development
For standard users the interface is friendly. but if you are a manager some tools are a little confusing to use, like the query system that you always need to create from scratch. Templates should be more helpful for queries and for standard procedures that you need to duplicate PBIs over time. The search history of Work Items is a little painful to use.
Jira has been growing in hardware design teams since is being integrated with CAD software. The best of Azure is that you can manage since level of access control to multiple types of teams. Another bonus is that Jira has more mobile features that let your team stay connected with your phones.

Do you think Azure DevOps Server delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Azure DevOps Server's feature set?

No

Did Azure DevOps Server live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Azure DevOps Server go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Azure DevOps Server again?

No

For an agile team, DevOps is great. Using scrum, Kanban fits perfectly into the project structure. The web interface lets anyone, anywhere, interact with work items.

The version control is great if you code, but if you design with CADs, it still lacks some link features that could help non-code documents.

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